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Wishing all our viewers a very Happy Dussehra & Durga Puja. Today on the programme, we’re going to talk about a significant milestone achieved by India of having further reduced child mortality rates. As per the Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report 2020 that was released recently, India’s under 5 mortality rate has declined from 45 per 1000 live births in 2014 to 35 per 1000 live births in 2019 and further down to 32 per 1000 live births in 2020. Infant Mortality Rate has also registered a 2-point decline to 28 per 1000 live births in 2020 from 30 per 1000 live births in 2019. While Neonatal Mortality Rate has dipped 2 points from 22 per 1000 live births in 2019 to 20 per 1000 live births in 2020. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for the country has also come down to 2.0 in 2020 from 2.1 in 2019. The Crude Birth Rate at the national level during 2020 stands at 19.5, exhibiting a decline of 0.2 points over 2019. From 2015 to 2020, there’s been a decline of 1.3 points in the Crude Birth Rate for the country. The targets under the National Health Mission to be achieved by 2025 is to reduce Infant Mortality Rate to 23, Under 5 Mortality Rate to 23 and sustain Total Fertility Rate to 2.1. What is being done to achieve this target in the next three years? What interventions by the govt have helped in rapidly reducing mortality rates in the country? And how can we end the urban-rural disparities is what we will try and understand in this edition of Perspective.
Guests:
1. Urvashi Prasad, Director, Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, NITI Aayog
2. Dr. Usha Ram, Professor & Head, Department of Bio-Statistics and Epidemiology, IIPS, Mumbai
3. Dr. Suneela Garg, Chair, Programme Advisory Committee, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare
Anchor: Teena Jha
Producer: Sagheer Ahmad
Guest Coordinator: Anshuman, Vishwa Pratap Singh
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